Undoubtedly Goddard's most entertaining book to date

Brilliantly plotted, full of twists, neat characterisation... this is a thriller full of good, traditional storytelling values

The plot races from one crisis to the next, keeping you guessing all the time. And there's a neat twist at the end, too

White Jazz makes previous detective fiction read like Dr. Seuss

Riffling, rolling, reeling . . . Ellroy's best

Riveting . . . Impossible to put down . . . An author who breaks all the rules. He's a kamikaze pilot on a collision course with hell. The pen moves madly across the page . . . A book that is one long scream of rage and emptiness and longing

The most original crime writer of our time

James Ellroy is a genius: the finest American crime writer since Raymond Chandler, and one of the most readable experimental writers in the world

Without him and his crime fiction, there's no David Peace or The Sopranos or Ian Rankin or The Wire or the work of countless writers and film makers who saw a different way of doing things when they first cracked the spine on an Ellroy

Burnside is an accomplished and careful writer. And this is a beautiful book, compelling and strange

Unsettling, hauntingly memorable tale

Written with deceptive elegance, riddled with gaps and non sequiturs and a clever travesty of several genres, this is a disturbing, provocative book'

[A Summer of Drowning] brings an eerie glow to the colours and sounds, flora and foodstuffs of the far north